Unirally retrospective
If you’re looking for a handy example of how the gaming landscape has changed, just cast your eye in the direction of Unirally, DMA Design’s SNES exclusive unicycle stunt racing game from 1994.It has something that’s all but disappeared from the mainstream console market today: simplicity. Today’s boxed releases are nervous things, forever looking over their shoulder at the approaching digital and mobile horde, doing anything they can to justify their prolonged development, their massive design teams, their recession-busting price tags. Own a boat! Decorate a house! Upgrade your hair! Anything to make a game look more substantial and detailed, all the better to tempt the money from your wallet and remind you to please, please, keep spending forty quid each time.Compared to such insidious feature creep, it’s hard to believe Unirally was once a full-price console release. Here’s the pitch: you race unicycles. That’s it. Intuitive, accessible, simple.Read more…
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